Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!transfer!lectroid!lectroid.sw.stratus.com!lennox From: lennox@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX on a Sun 3/80 Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 90 18:14:03 GMT References: <685@philica.ica.philips.nl> Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Distribution: comp Organization: /u/minilove/lennox/.organization Lines: 21 In-reply-to: adrie@philica.ica.philips.nl's message of 10 Oct 90 09:16:31 GMT In article <685@philica.ica.philips.nl> adrie@philica.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen) writes: I guess, that a port of Minix to the Sun 3/80 would be a merge of Minix for the SparcStation and a 68000 version of Minix (ST). The Sun 3/80 contains a Motorola 68030, so you could borrow a lot from Minix-ST, but the boot mechanism and much of the device controllers will be the same as in the SparcStation 1. Makes sense. Where can a get a copy of the (relevant files of the) Sparc MINIX port? I think I can cover the software end of things all right, but interfacing to the hardware will be a trick since I haven't got much in the way of specs beyond the "Writing Device Drivers" manual. Any advice on where to get more detailed info would be appreciated. -- | flame me at: lennox@minilove.diag.stratus.com, (Craig Scott Lennox) | |"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!" | | Disclaimer: My opinions are covered by section 2b of the Gnu Public | | License and thus do not belong to Stratus Computer. |